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Studies in South Asian Film & Media 13.1 is out now!
Friday, February 04, 2022

Studies in South Asian Film & Media 13.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Studies in South Asian Film & Media 13.1 is out now!

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-south-asian-film-media

 

Aims and Scope

 

Studies in South Asian Film & Media is committed to looking at the media and cinemas of the Indian subcontinent in their social, political, economic, historical and increasingly globalized and diasporic contexts, in relation to class, caste, gender, race, sexuality and ideology. The journal hopes to build a space for critical media theory and practice, engage scholars, activists and media practitioners in dialogue, clarify the relationship between culture and politics and highlight South Asia as a vantage point from where the contemporary integration of the globe may be understood. Analytical and theoretical perspectives that are critical, interdisciplinary and global, and which combine an awareness of aesthetics with insights from the humanities and social sciences to explain how subjectivities and publics are produced in specific historical contexts, are especially welcome.

 

Topics covered will include but are not limited to: history, aesthetics and political economy of South Asian media culture; history of the progressive movement in Indian cinema and media; the crossovers between cinema, media and the other arts; critical studies of the politics of culture as used in various social movements; the new international division of cultural labour; the process and consequences of the shift from state-owned media to the neoliberal model; globalization; cinema as social history; public spaces and theatrical exhibition; representation in contemporary Indian writing and media on the turn towards neoliberalism; the theory and practice of Third Cinema in the Indian context, regional/vernacular cinema; and gender and subalterneity.

 

Prospective guest editors may approach the lead editor with a proposal for a themed issue. Prospective book reviewers and publishers should approach the reviews editor directly.

 

Issue 13.1

 

Articles

 

Contemporary television and the concept of transparency

JENSON JOSEPH

 

Activating Bollywood buzz: Promoting Indian film superstars in supporting roles

PETER C. PUGSLEY AND SAIRA ALI

 

Tracing the Kafkaesque in neoliberal India: No Smoking (2007)

SOUMIK PAL

 

Book Reviews

 

Unruly Cinema: History, Politics and Bollywood, Rini Bhattacharya Mehta (2020)

PAULOMI SHARMA

 

Modernism by Other Means: The Films of Amit Dutta, Srikanth Srinivasan (2020)

HARMANPREET KAUR

 

Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies, Megha Anwar and Anupama Arora (2021)

PRITHA CHAKRABARTI

 

Film Review

 

Memories of darkness: Art against anti-democracy in A Long Way Home, Luc Schaedler, China, Go Between Films (2018)

NAMRATA RELE SATHE

 

Corrigendum

 

‘The gendered film worker: Women in cinema collective, intimate publics and the politics of labour’

BINDU MENON MANNIL